{"id":7,"date":"2018-06-08T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T20:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:22:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a general consensus that the purpose of RE is about religious literacy. In relation to this we are defining this more specifically as: Helping children and young people hold balanced and well-informed conversations about religion and belief.<\/p>\n<p>In order to fulfil this purpose we are advocating that RE needs to provide a balance between three disciplines. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theology<\/li>\n<li>Philosophy<\/li>\n<li>Human\/Social Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We envisage this is a means of structuring an RE curriculum in primary and secondary education that enables teachers to fulfil the stated purpose, i.e. to produce pupils who are religiously literate.<\/p>\n<p>This structure will provide the architectural plan within which a range of RE content, pedagogies and resources can develop religiously literate pupils.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out about this approach in\u00a0this\u00a0short film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curriculum Design in Religious Education - #balancedRE\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6NTW2bsFTLY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A balanced curriculum, is like a three-legged stool<\/p>\n<p>Conversations are often best had sitting down! Particularly the hard ones\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"http:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/three-legged-stool-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"three legged stool\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/three-legged-stool-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/three-legged-stool.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A three legged stool provides a useful analogy.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to create balance is to have a three legged chair or stool.<\/p>\n<p>Three legs provide a stable equilibrium because mathematically three points determine a plane.<\/p>\n<p>Holding the three disciplines in balance is key.<\/p>\n<p>One should not dominate the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a general consensus that the purpose of RE is about religious literacy. In relation to this we are defining this more specifically as: Helping children and young people hold balanced and well-informed conversations about religion and belief. In order to fulfil this purpose we are advocating that RE needs to provide a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balancedre.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}